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onion routing

Summary

onion routing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • onion routing's image is recorded as Tor-onion-network.png[2].
  • onion routing's image is recorded as Wat is Tor (The onion routing)?.png[3].
  • onion routing's subclass of is recorded as routing[4].
  • onion routing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026wkc[5].
  • onion routing's Quora topic ID is recorded as Onion-Routing[6].
  • onion routing's P6009 is recorded as 25925[7].
  • onion routing's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776204327[8].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for onion routing include Tor[9], a daemon[10].

Why It Matters

onion routing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Entities named for it include Tor[9], a daemon[10].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). onion routing. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-routing
MLA “onion routing.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-routing.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_onion-routing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{onion routing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-routing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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